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January 21, 2007
Post-Fire Update
I realized that I never really gave an accounting of the post-fire changes in our building. The fire resulted in at least one eviction. The (rather loud) neighbors living next-door to the apartment with the fire were evicted. Why, I don't know, but I'm guessing something our landlord didn't like was discovered when the firemen went in there. One morning not long after the fire, there was a Marshall's notice and a padlock on the door.
The tenant in the apartment with the fire was forced out for having too many people living in there, or for some other reason -- possibly the fire itself, we don't know. Then, finally, our next door neighbor got frustrated with the pace of the fixes to her place, and left. So we have three new couples living here now: all paying more than us instead of way less than us. Six months ago, we didn't think anything would cause the rent stabilized tenants to leave -- now nearly all of them are gone. I'm sure our landlords are thrilled, but the whole thing feels weird. I'm also wondering if our landlords will raise our rent this summer. After a year with a fire, one month of soggy soot, holes in our walls, two months of construction downstairs, and related unpleasantness in the stairwell, I'd be pretty upset if they tried to do that.
Posted by csageday at January 21, 2007 03:53 PM
Comments
Are the new neighbors nice at least?
Posted by: ck at January 22, 2007 10:10 AM
We only know the ones next to us, and they're really nice. They're expecting a baby, soon, though, so we might be hearing noise of another kind soon, but we can deal with that.
Posted by: Cindy at January 22, 2007 12:10 PM